The Pentagon's move to finalize agreements with seven firms while closing Anthropic out is not a warning — it is a completed enforcement of the DoD's "any lawful use" standard [1]. Anthropic's two guardrails, which a Bluesky commenter accurately described as "the lowest possible bar, literal nanometers off of the floor" [1], were still enough to trigger exclusion. The institutional consequence is that the defense procurement market now has a documented threshold: any corporate safety policy that limits autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance use cases disqualifies a vendor. The seven…